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Fall fiction is here and ready to entertain you, as new novels by Nicole Krauss, Salman Rushdie and Nathan Englander can attest.


The Golden House

The Golden House

Salman Rushdie

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When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious...


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Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A Novel

Dinner at the Center of the Earth: A Novel

Nathan Englander

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The best work yet from the Pulitzer finalist and best-selling author of For the Relief of Unbearable...


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Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe

Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming on the War Roads of Europe

Inara Verzemnieks

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"It's long been assumed of the region where my grandmother was born...that at some point each year...


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A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

A Rift in the Earth: Art, Memory, and the Fight for a Vietnam War Memorial

James Reston Jr.

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A Distinguished and Bestselling Historian and Vietnam Vet Revisits the Culture War that Raged around...


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Nonfiction recommendations this week will set you off on a journey, whether retracing the steps of the “Odyssey” with the memoirist Daniel Mendelsohn, or the senior-citizen workampers of “Nomadland.”


An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic

Daniel Mendelsohn

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From the best-selling author of 'The Lost', a deeply moving tale of a father, a son and the lessons...

Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream

Bones: Brothers, Horses, Cartels, and the Borderland Dream

Joe Tone

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The dramatic true story of two brothers living parallel lives on either side of the U.S.-Mexico...


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The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel

The Misfortune of Marion Palm: A Novel

Emily Culliton

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A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small...


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Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change

Ellen Pao

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR | NAMED A BEST FALL...


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The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World

Oona Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro

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A bold and provocative history of the men who fought to outlaw war and how an often overlooked...


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There’s a ton of science fiction, fantasy, and horror books coming out in October that The Verge has been digging into.


Barbary Station

Barbary Station

R.E. Stearns

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Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are...


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Siege Line

Siege Line

Myke Cole

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Myke Cole continues to blow the military fantasy genre wide open with SIEGE LINE, an all-new epic...

Switchback: Nightshades Series

Switchback: Nightshades Series

Melissa F. Olson

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The Bureau of Preternatural Investigations returns in Switchback, the sequel to Melissa F. Olson's...


Fantasy
The Beautiful Ones: A Novel

The Beautiful Ones: A Novel

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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"Truly one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. This sweeping tale of love lost and...


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Above the Timberline

Above the Timberline

Gregory Manchess

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From renowned artist Gregory Manchess comes a lavishly painted novel about the son of a famed polar...


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Two of the year’s most highly anticipated books are on this week’s New York Times list of recommendations:


Bluebird, Bluebird

Bluebird, Bluebird

Attica Locke

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Southern fables usually go the other way around: a white woman killed or harmed in some way, real or...


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One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported

One Nation After Trump: A Guide for the Perplexed, the Disillusioned, the Desperate, and the Not-Yet Deported

E.J. Dionne Jr., Norman J. Ornstein and Thomas E. Mann

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A call to action from three of Washington's premier political scholar-journalists, One Nation After...


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Afterglow: A Dog's Memoir

Afterglow: A Dog's Memoir

Eileen Myles

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Prolific and widely renowned, Eileen Myles is a trailblazer whose decades of literary and artistic...


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The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth

The Stone Sky: The Broken Earth

N.K. Jemisin

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The remarkable conclusion to the highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic trilogy that began with...


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At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York

At the Strangers' Gate: Arrivals in New York

Adam Gopnik

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From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a...


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With must-reads on everything from business strategy to career design, here are Forbes' handpicked list of the best business books of 2016:


Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets are Transforming the Economyand How to Make Them Work for You

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets are Transforming the Economyand How to Make Them Work for You

Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne and Sangeet Paul Choudary

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Uber. Airbnb. Amazon. Apple. PayPal. All of these companies disrupted their markets when they...

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz

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Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What's the most important place to focus...

Wired to Create: Discover the 10 Things Great Artists, Writers and Innovators Do Differently

Wired to Create: Discover the 10 Things Great Artists, Writers and Innovators Do Differently

Scott Barry Kaufman and Carolyn Gregoire

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Is it possible to make sense of something as elusive as creativity? Creativity works in mysterious...

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport

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Many modern knowledge workers now spend most of their brain power battling distraction and...

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